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...musical, Shangri-La takes itself very seriously. James Hilton, apparently started out with the feeling that a number of ideas, all found in the Hilton novel Lost Horizon on which the musical is based, were important and should be expressed. Undoubtedly these ideas, ranging from the brotherhood of man through the value of moderation to the evils of mechanized civilization, have a profound importance. The first concern of the stage, however, is human personality and not abstract philosophy. Philosophical ideas get a valid dramatic statement only so long as they illuminate some dilemma in which the people on stage find...
...hotel suites just as though they were in the good old Bellevue-Stratford, Jack Kelly's pals from Philly sent him practical jokes in the form of telegrams. "Report back to the Palace, Kelly," said one. "Your furlough is up." President Eisenhower's personal representative, Hotelman Conrad Hilton, on arrival brushed aside the suggestion that he might want to build a Monaco Hilton: "We never build in resorts or small towns...
HOTELMAN CONRAD HILTON, whose globe-girdling empire already takes in eleven foreign cities, will move into another. In a joint venture with former Queen Rambai Barni of Thailand and local businessmen, Hilton will build and operate a $4,000,000 hotel in Bangkok with all the luxury trimmings: 300 air-conditioned rooms, restaurants, shops, and a roof garden overlooking the city's canals and temples...
Died. Arthur F. Douglas. 53, onetime (1945-54) president of Hotels Statler Co., Inc. (until it was sold to Hilton Hotels Corp.), younger brother of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas; of a heart attack; in Cuttingsville...
...Pepsodent. They plow back the bulk of the profits into the business. Though he is busier than ever, Luckman still finds time to serve on the boards of five Los Angeles civic groups. He wakes at 5 a.m. in the Bel Air mansion he bought from Hotelman Conrad Hilton (who recently commissioned Pereira and Luckman to design the Berlin Hilton hotel), usually has at least one hour's work behind him when he sets out for the firm's Sunset Boulevard offices. Outwardly, Chuck Luckman has changed little since he washed Lever Bros, out of his thinning sandy...